Does anyone know where I can find mechanical acceleration/mechanical vibration/mechanical shock specs for electronic components? I've looked at many detailed spec sheets but none seem to cover sensitivity to mechanical acceleration, the exception being MEMS accelerometers and generic resistors. I just need a very rough guess as to mechanical acceleration tolerance limits for generic IC's so I can see if my electronics stand a chance during acceleration.

I figured as much, but then I read that apparently ordinary discrete resistors are damaged (as in their value changes permanently by more than 2%) from 0.1 seconds of 100 g acceleration. It's possible that IC's are more resilient, because of the much higher surface/volume ratio of the "components" on a slab of silicon (less inertia and higher stiffness), or that even slight change in the properties and values of the components from the acceleration wouldn't be any concern because circuits are designed to function with a certain tolerance level for the values. My main concern is the sensitivity of the crystal oscillator to accelerations, because a hundred ppm change in values would render it useless.

Anyways, I'm keeping acceleration at around 50 gs (for 20 seconds), but things would be easier if I dared to push it to 100 g's or more instead. I guess this post was more thinking out loud than anything, but if anyone else has any input on possible acceleration/shock tolerances for components I'ld appreciate it too.

Most ICs and MEMS devices can withstand very high accelerations. Peculiar things like vibrational resonances could be explored with a homemade shaker table that can shake from maybe 10 to 10,000 Hz and use strobing by led lighting to look for resonances